Maria Raquel Freire

Contacts
rfreire@fe.uc.pt

Biography

Maria Raquel Freire, PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent, UK, is researcher at the Centre for Social Studies and Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. She was the Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence PRONE, and held a Jean Monnet Chair, at the University of Coimbra. She is currently involved in the research projects ProTest (Horizon Europe) and CARSI (Marie Curie Staff Exchange). She was a visiting professor and/or researcher at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA (FLAD Visiting Professor); Osaka University, Japan; KULeuven, Belgium, among others. Her research interests focus on peace studies, foreign policy, international security, European Union, and Eurasia. She has published extensively on these topics.


Latest Publications

Article in Scientific journal

Da Mota, Sarah; Freire, Maria Raquel; Teles Fazendeiro, Bernardo (2025), "A Relação UE-Ásia Central: Novos Desafios Geopolíticos", Nação e Defesa, 171, 169-190

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Article in Scientific journal

Freire, Maria Raquel (2025), "Russia's African Gambit: Anti-Colonial Rhetoric and the 'World Majority'", Russian Analytical Digest, 331

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Book Chapter

Freire, Maria Raquel; Santos, Sofia José; Crivelente, Moara Assis; Bezerra, Luiza de Almeida (2025), Mediatized discourses on Europeanization in Portugal, in Lika Tsudaldze, Tanya Lokot, Sonia Boulos (org.), Mediatized Discouses on Europeanization and Their Representations in Public Perceptions. Madrid: Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, 253-280

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